UKIP Have Some Good Ideas

LOL JKS APRIL FOOLS! They're all terrible. 





Last night Medway TUSC held a public meeting "No to Austerity - we deserve better" - which was awesome by the way. There were so many new faces and a few old, with super-important questions like "What makes TUSC different?" and "How can we take public ownership of the banks?" 

There was a woman in the front row, who I overheard make a really interesting comment to the person she was with. 

TUSC loves council housing and I didn't get a chance to come back on it in the meeting so I thought I'd use my blog to explain what we'd do about housing, for the woman in the front row and anyone else wants to know. 

As it stands there is housing crisis. The cost of housing is soaring, both to buy and to rent. Wages, on the other hand, are not. 

Got a lot of time for this graph. 

There's not enough housing and the stuff that there is gets snapped up by buy-to-letters, which they then rent out at extortionate rates, inflating the market even further. 

The upshot of it all is, for young-uns like me, the home-ownership dream is virtually completely unattainable. So the choice is either rent privately and have over half your wages swallowed up by the landlord OR live at the behest of yer mum and dad. 

 Everyone's a winner. 

So, TUSC stands for a cap on rents. Private landlords don't actually have some God-given right to charge whatever they want for homes. Homes are pretty essential for people and the free market has utterly failed to provide them. 

TUSC councillors would also build bloody loads of council houses. Actually, if there was more council housing, council estates would be less like this: 

Shameless. It used to be really good.

And more like this: 

Pass the coleslaw.

Who wouldn't want to live there? 

The fact is, we need lots and lots of ecologically sustainable, high quality housing that's *actually* affordable. The market can't provide that, because it's not profitable.

We could use council reserves to build new ecologically sustainable, high quality, *actually* affordable places and renovate old ones. 

Then we could re-invest the revenues in building even more ecologically sustainable, high quality, *actually* affordable homes for even more people, and so on and so on. 

What's not to like about that? 

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